Ice 3.2b release

[Andreas Scherer]

Dear ZeroC team:

After three hours of playing with the latest (beta) release, I can say: Congratulations!

I'm still running OpenSUSE 10.0, g++ 4.0.2, ruby 1.8.2, java 1.5.0.

After commenting the CS stuff in the rpm spec file, I created eight rpms and updated the installation without problems (rpm -iU ice-*3.2b*) . Then I edited /etc/bash.bashrc.local (CLASSPATH, PYTHONPATH, RUBYLIB, LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

The 'demo/book/printer' demo ran out-of-the-box, also a weird combination of 'demoj/book/printer/Server.java' (I had to hack 'common.xml') and 'demorb/book/printer/Client.rb'.

And after modifying the signatur of the 'sayHello' member function, even my QtClient.rb runs fine. See attachment.

Excellent stuff. Thank you very much!

Andreas

[beagles]

Hi Andreas,

What kind of change did you need to make to common.xml?

Cheers,

Brent

[Andreas Scherer]

Hello Brent,

The version of ant on my system (Apache Ant version 1.6.2) does not like the "else" constructs in common.xml:

Class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ConditionTask doesn't support the "else" attribute.

See the attached unified diff. I simply remove these things to make it match my preferences.

Take care,
Andreas

[dwayne]

Hello Brent,

The version of ant on my system (Apache Ant version 1.6.2) does not like the "else" constructs in common.xml:

Yes, that is expected. IceJ requires ant 1.6.3 or greater.

Regards,
Dwayne

[Andreas Scherer]

IceJ requires ant 1.6.3 or greater.

Well, it just depends on your notion of "requirement"; I can happily live with ant 1.6.2, ruby 1.8.2, qt3, etc. in conjunction with Ice 3.x on top of a not-officially-supported (luckily not an officially-not-supported) OS.

In Ice 3.1.0 requires Ant 1.6.3+ I had reported this as a "bug", but since it's easy enough to work around (short of updating to a newer version of ant), I wouldn't want to push this further.

Thanks and take care,
Andreas

[Andreas Scherer]

BTW, I have noticed tonight that Ice 3.2.0 works fine locally without the cli option

--Ice.Default.Host=linux

(see Ice 2.1.2 / 3.0.0 on OpenSUSE 10). Thanks for saving the extra keystrokes!

Andreas